The best way of understanding the attitude of the group
. of ten Nationalists led by Mr. William O'Brien and Mr. Healy ; is to take their own account of their aims and objects. Here is what the Cork Accent, their official organ, says about the
Budget :—
"The people have made it absolutely clear that a Finance Bill , which imposes enormous extra taxation on Ireland must not be . passed into law. To prevent such an injustice to this country is the first duty which Mr. O'Brien and Mr. T. M. Healy and their friends will undertake. If the Irish Party under Mr. Redmond's leader- ship prove false to their country their doom is sealed. They will be universally execrated as traitors and they will never be able to -faCe-an Irish audience again. Mr. Redmond will have to make . his choice between the robbers and those who are resisting a monstrous injustice to Ireland."
